Post by David AmicusWhen Royals marry commoners why aren't the Royals degraded and lose their rank rather than trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear?

If the UK had insisted for the last 150 years that all spouses had to have four royal grandparents, then we would not have had

1. Queen Mary - grand-daughter of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countess_Claudine_Rh%C3%A9dey_von_Kis-Rh%C3%A9de2. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother - none of her grandparents were royal - she and Princess Diana were both daughers of earls.3. Prince Philip - grandson of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Louis_of_Battenberg

Post by David AmicusWhen Royals marry commoners why aren't the Royals degraded and lose their rank rather than trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear?

If the UK had insisted for the last 150 years that all spouses had to have four royal grandparents, then we would not have had1. Queen Mary - grand-daughter of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countess_Claudine_Rh%C3%A9dey_von_Kis-Rh%C3%A9de2. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother - none of her grandparents were royal - she and Princess Diana were both daughers of earls.3. Prince Philip - grandson of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Louis_of_Battenberg

Post by David AmicusWhen Royals marry commoners why aren't the Royals degraded and lose their rank rather than trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear?

If the UK had insisted for the last 150 years that all spouses had to have four royal grandparents, then we would not have had1. Queen Mary - grand-daughter of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countess_Claudine_Rh%C3%A9dey_von_Kis-Rh%C3%A9de2. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother - none of her grandparents were royal - she and Princess Diana were both daughers of earls.3. Prince Philip - grandson of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Louis_of_Battenberg

Then who would have been monarch?

I suppose Edward VII would have been succeeded by Olav V of Norway,who would have combined the crowns on the death of Haakon VII,but all his children married commoners so it would skip to ErnstAugust of Hanover except by the time Olav died he had married acommoner.

His only brother married an apparently dynastic countess whoseAustrian family descended from Italian rulers of Milan...their son wouldperhaps be heir,as the mother died of a drug overdose and the fathercommitted suicide before King Olav died.Ernst August's elder sister married a Count who is apparently a dynast ofthe Dukes/Princes of Pless,their sons are titled Counts;their younger sister married the Prince of Leiningen and their son isrecently married to a Prussian princess.

-=-=-The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

Post by David AmicusWhen Royals marry commoners why aren't the Royals degraded and lose their rank rather than trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear?

If the UK had insisted for the last 150 years that all spouses had to have four royal grandparents, then we would not have had1. Queen Mary - grand-daughter of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countess_Claudine_Rh%C3%A9dey_von_Kis-Rh%C3%A9de2. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother - none of her grandparents were royal - she and Princess Diana were both daughers of earls.3. Prince Philip - grandson of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Louis_of_Battenberg

Then who would have been monarch?

I suppose Edward VII would have been succeeded by Olav V of Norway,who would have combined the crowns on the death of Haakon VII,but all his children married commoners so it would skip to ErnstAugust of Hanover except by the time Olav died he had married acommoner.His only brother married an apparently dynastic countess whoseAustrian family descended from Italian rulers of Milan...their son wouldperhaps be heir,as the mother died of a drug overdose and the fathercommitted suicide before King Olav died.Ernst August's elder sister married a Count who is apparently a dynast ofthe Dukes/Princes of Pless,their sons are titled Counts;their younger sister married the Prince of Leiningen and their son isrecently married to a Prussian princess.-=-=-The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

Haven't all the Jacobite claimants over the centuries had equal marriages?

Post by David AmicusWhen Royals marry commoners why aren't the Royals degraded and lose their rank rather than trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear?

If the UK had insisted for the last 150 years that all spouses had to have four royal grandparents, then we would not have had1. Queen Mary - grand-daughter of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countess_Claudine_Rh%C3%A9dey_von_Kis-Rh%C3%A9de2. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother - none of her grandparents were royal - she and Princess Diana were both daughers of earls.3. Prince Philip - grandson of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Louis_of_Battenberg

Then who would have been monarch?

I suppose Edward VII would have been succeeded by Olav V of Norway,who would have combined the crowns on the death of Haakon VII,but all his children married commoners so it would skip to ErnstAugust of Hanover except by the time Olav died he had married acommoner.His only brother married an apparently dynastic countess whoseAustrian family descended from Italian rulers of Milan...their son wouldperhaps be heir,as the mother died of a drug overdose and the fathercommitted suicide before King Olav died.Ernst August's elder sister married a Count who is apparently a dynast ofthe Dukes/Princes of Pless,their sons are titled Counts;their younger sister married the Prince of Leiningen and their son isrecently married to a Prussian princess.

Haven't all the Jacobite claimants over the centuries had equal marriages?